bluntisimo t1_jed5a8d wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:34 AM

Jobs are just going to get more non-essential. I bet during every big change in tech people think we will not have anything to do but we will innovate and create a job market even if there is not a need for one.

I think people are just surprised it is doing so well, it was supposed to be self-driving cars, VR and robotics that were on the horizon, but these language models kind of caught everyone with their pants down but there is nothing to support this tech even if it does become useful soon.

Most of the fear I have heard has been about developing the tech too fast and not so much about job loss because I think that would take a lot of time to even evaluate what this thing is capable of replacing let alone build the structure for it to exist in.

Think touch screens in mcdonalds and how long that took to roll out.

thehourglasses t1_jediefr wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:51 AM

Are you kidding? There are already prompt engineering consultants making huge stacks teaching organizations how they can augment or even replace their knowledge workers with language models. Everyone is very underprepared for how quickly things are going to change.

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dja_ra OP t1_jegjs2i wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:18 PM

Except that right now, language models are generating plausible, but inaccurate output. It can only work with the data its given. Maybe it will never get better than that. The alchemists kept thinking that they were going to get gold from lead if they worked at it long enough. We are still waiting.

thehourglasses t1_jegkole wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:24 PM

If you understood what you were talking about, you wouldn’t comment. So far, I’ve seen entire web apps designed and built by ChatGPT, among a whole host of other insanely impressive things. Obviously it’s not a perfect system but far from useless as you’ve implied.